I live in Portland, Oregon and work with colleagues in Canada, India, and California. I was trained in technical communication at the University of Washington in Seattle after an early career in software quality assurance at Aldus and Adobe, where I was part of the development team for the desktop publishing products PageMaker, InDesign, and InCopy.

I prefer Macintosh computers, but I happily concede that the alternatives have been getting better. My other personal interests include hiking and socializing with my wife, Jo Brown; the music of the late Scott Miller, especially that of his post-Game Theory band the Loud Family; music by a wide variety of other late twentieth century bands and performers, from Phil Ochs to Nick Cave; fiction by Gene Wolfe, Vladimir Nabokov, Raymond Chandler, and Patrick O’Brian; history, physical anthropology, paleontology, and the usual stuff: food and travel. In the art museum, you’ll find me in the early Renaissance gallery.